Recent posts to newshttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/Recent posts to newsenThu, 03 Jul 2003 14:13:24 -0000NFC 1.1.0 release candidate 1 is outhttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/2003/07/nfc-110-release-candidate-1-is-out/<div class="markdown_content"><p>A completely new lightweight client has been added in this version. We're also introducing a persistence package, wich allows you to permanently store ignore lists and room op and access privilidges. Also new is the ability to kick users out of rooms or off the server for a given amount of time. Lastly, a number of bugs have been fixed.</p>
<p>This is a release candidate for version 1.1.0. If you encounter any bugs in this release, or anything else that has slipped our attention, please send a bug report or post to the forums. We expect to release the final version 1.1.0 in a week or two.</p></div>Jonathan EllisThu, 03 Jul 2003 14:13:24 -0000https://sourceforge.net34458d1a0757dd00aa0e5c0aa7f0ca277798ba46NFC version 1.0.8 releasedhttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/2002/11/nfc-version-108-released/<div class="markdown_content"><p>This first release of NFC chat in 9 months fixes some bugs that we encountered lately, mostly reported in the forums. The bugs were mostly related to logging and incorrect startup scripts.</p>
<p>By popular demand the functionality of the JdbcAuthenticator (which controls authentication of users using a database) has been enhanced. You can now restrict all access to the chat server to only the users in the database, and you can encrypt passwords in the database. The use of the JdbcAuthenticator is documented in 'database authentication.html' in the docs directory.</p></div>Jonathan EllisMon, 25 Nov 2002 23:17:37 -0000https://sourceforge.net5b22b93fcca02cfd4da6926d3b5d2751f445a077NFC State of the Unionhttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/2002/02/nfc-state-of-the-union/<div class="markdown_content"><p>It's been over 2 years since the last release of NFC. Somewhat to my<br />
suprise people still mail me about it and seem to be using it. A few<br />
have even dared to get under the hood and add their own hacks to the<br />
source code.</p>
<p>I thought that I owed it to whoever is using this or trying to use it<br />
to make a maintanence release. Up to version 1.0.6-rc2, it used to be<br />
pretty hard to get this all to build and run, especially the<br />
http-tunneling support. I think the build and deploy process is now<br />
quite easier than it used to be, thanks to switching the build system<br />
to use Ant from Make. [I could go into a long rant right here about<br />
how great Ant is for Java projects, but I'll spare you]</p>
<p>You can build and deploy NFC right now in three steps:<br />
1. type: ant build<br />
2. copy the resultant file, webapps/nfc.war into your servlet engine's<br />
webapps directory.<br />
3. restart your servlet engine</p>
<p>The nfc.war file is a portable Java web application that can be<br />
dropped into any Java Servlet 2.2 (or better) servlet engine and run<br />
instantly. </p>
<p>This build enhancement is the only change I really made. But there<br />
have been two contributions:</p>
<p>The Flash 5 client and server files have been added to the main<br />
distribution. (see <a href="http://www.ajdigital.com/nfcchat/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ajdigital.com/nfcchat/</a> for the Flash<br />
stuff). Thanks to Alon from <a href="http://ajdigital.com." rel="nofollow">http://ajdigital.com.</a></p>
<p>A the /ignore and /unignore commands have been bugfixed. Thanks to<br />
Maarten van Hoof for this.</p>
<p>The idea for the 1.0.7 is to get some feedback from whoever downloads<br />
it, make any necessary tweaks, and then make one more release, which<br />
will be sort of the final release. [Truthfully, even though I keep<br />
saying &quot;I'll get back to work on NFC some day&quot;, that day will probably<br />
never come]. It is what it is. At least now people can finally<br />
install it without a serious headache.</p>
<p>If anybody wants to make any changes, you are welcome to have CVS<br />
commit access. Just ask for it.</p>
<p>One last note.. the distributed server stuff. Except for a few<br />
months, when a guy in Germany and I were running NFC server in<br />
distributed mode, and this failed software company called Zebware,<br />
nobdoy's ever really used it. Most likely, nobody would ever NEED to<br />
use it, since I've never heard of anybody having that many users<br />
connecting to their NFC server! And this is why the distributed mode<br />
is 100% undocumented. :)</p>
<p>That's the update. Adios amigos.</p></div>Jonathan EllisSun, 10 Feb 2002 00:45:44 -0000https://sourceforge.net6a690adedea74f8b108487d7058620f15b7400f7Version 1.0.4a releasedhttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/2000/10/version-104a-released/<div class="markdown_content"><p>This releases fixes numerous bugs and introduces a (very basic) Swing GUI. See the download section for the ChangeLog and files.</p></div>Jonathan EllisSat, 21 Oct 2000 01:20:17 -0000https://sourceforge.netd8d407c439d65083a08fa6252ce432a196715761FAQ-O-Matic is now onlinehttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/2000/10/faq-o-matic-is-now-online/<div class="markdown_content"><p>The FAQ-O-Matic is now up and running at <a href="http://research.lyrisoft.com/cgi-bin/fom." rel="nofollow">http://research.lyrisoft.com/cgi-bin/fom.</a> Not much there now, but I expect it to grow based on questions that people ask.</p></div>Jonathan EllisFri, 20 Oct 2000 15:38:25 -0000https://sourceforge.net2ca7904cae23ad3dd8ca58b23dfa2a7e8319b262Version 1.0.0 is outhttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/2000/10/version-100-is-out/<div class="markdown_content"><p>We are now distributed and scalable. Look out.</p></div>Jonathan EllisWed, 04 Oct 2000 11:18:11 -0000https://sourceforge.net4899fcf36505b27b3ab69163b9c8145d32e5edfcNFC will use JMS for distributed chathttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/2000/10/nfc-will-use-jms-for-distributed-chat/<div class="markdown_content"><p>Sun's JMS (Java Message Service) specification is going to be used to transform NFC into a scalable distributed chat system. Details about JMS are at <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jms/." rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/products/jms/.</a> More details about NFC's usage of JMS are forthcoming.</p></div>Jonathan EllisSun, 01 Oct 2000 19:29:06 -0000https://sourceforge.net1769c197c67e1a29f557ba0090aa9201c784adb5NFC moves to SourceForgehttps://sourceforge.net/p/nfcchat/news/2000/10/nfc-moves-to-sourceforge/<div class="markdown_content"><p>Here is a nice new SourceForge project for NFC.</p></div>Jonathan EllisSun, 01 Oct 2000 19:26:55 -0000https://sourceforge.net395a361d9ddf67469940b748f45c7a28a12ffef0